server hardware stress testing

The data was conclusive. The servers orion-47, orion-50 and orion-52 needed RAM upgrades. In the past one month their RAM usage has mostly been above 85% and was showing an increasing trend. Swap usage has grown by more than 20% and it was resulting in higher I/O wait and thereby a slight tendency for high load.

These servers were part of a load balancing cluster that served a SaaS application in a data center managed by our Dedicated Linux Systems Administrators. The occasion was our weekly review of alert trends, and corrective actions needed to prevent a performance degradation. Regular analysis of alert trends allow us to predict future resource bottle necks, and prevent service deterioration.